Page 1 of Britannia DVD Bargain !!!

have just noticed advert in paper !!
join britannia and buy a multi region dvd player for 99 pound !!
it is an unnamed brand but on closer inspection is a goodmans gdvd124 which is already multi regionned and able to remote hack to remove macrovision.
also sign up to get 5 dvds at 9.99 each including planet of the apes !
anyone taken advantage of this deal yet ??

Bargain and Britannia are two words that can never go together!

Everyone I know who is in them wish they had never joined and are currently trying to find the cheapest way possible to fulfil their contract and get out!

I sure hope this is a joke posting this in the `bargain` section of the forums? :-)

thanks for the warning i had no idea about britannia why are they so bad ?
anyway you can buy the dvd player without signing up i think. just thought it might be useful to someone sorry !?

I have recently "got out" of my aggreement with Britannia, after a long struggle. Firstly, they charged me for outstanding postage for items I had sent back months earlier......I didn`t realise that when they send out CD`s that I hadn`t ordered, and I post them back to them, I also had to pay the postage for them sending them to me in the first place!!!!!
Anyway, the only way anyone I know has ever got out of the agreement, before fulfilling the purchase obligation, is to write them a letter, and state that you have become unemployed and cannot afford to buy any more CD`s/DVD`d, etc...Once they think you have no money, they don`t want to know you anymore!
A little extreme, but it works!

Identity withheld in case anyone form Britannia is reading this!!!!!!!

thanx again, i will not be signing up as it looks like a 9.99 dvd could end up costing a fortune !!!

Have you thought of joining the Moonies, it`s a similar thing! ;-D

I`m sure the law is quite clear on matters such as Brittania - if they send you something which you haven`t ordered, you are entitled to presume it is a gift since you didn`t request it in the first place. You are neither obliged to pay for it, nor return it if you`ve told them. If they want it back, tough; they shouldn`t have sent it out in the first place. Check out www.tradingstandards.net, or better still go here:
http://www.devon.gov.uk/tradstds/notes/faq.html
Perhaps Brittania can still screw you if there`s a contract involved, but I think they must still pay postage (see above). If everyone practiced their rights, they would stop all their nonsense.
I hope I don`t get anyone into trouble for this! Please seek proper legal advice first (emailing Trading Standards should do the job).